Talismans and Amulets
As I’ve mentioned in other blog posts, I took a lot of inspiration for my fantasy romance series from real life events and facts. One such fact is that of astrological magic—an ancient practice I researched thoroughly for The Mundane and the Arcane, in which astrology is the main magic system. The major external quest…
Zodiac Academy: Tory and Darcy’s Natal Charts
As an astrology lover who’s been studying the subject for eight years, I attempt to understand people through their natal charts. Fictional people are no exception. Whenever I grow emotionally invested in a book character, I immediately begin to imagine what their natal chart might look like. I love rationalizing why I think certain characters…
What’s your ATLA bending style, based on astrology?
How amazing is Avatar the Last Airbender? The age old question of which bending style I’d like to have most has haunted me almost as much as the heart wrenching song Uncle Iroh sings (Leaves from the vine…drifting so slow…). Don’t mind me sobbing. How can we use astrology to figure out which bending style…
Horcrux = Ego
All of us kind of have an horcrux – and it’s called our ego. Voldermort is like a case study in what an out of control ego looks like. In Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, he describes the ego as being a split in the human psyche in which we imagine a conceptualized version of…
Medical Astrology + Herbalism
Up until the late Middle Ages, it was required at some universities that physicians study astrology. At the university of Bologna in Italy, it was required that physicians study astrology for at least 4 years! Physicians of the time used astrology to diagnose a patient by looking at their natal chart and seeing how current…
Crystals are just muggle wands
I’ve had a realization: crystals are to muggles what wands are to wizards. There’s a little SAT prep for you. There’s a feature on the Wizarding World website about wandlore, and essentially, wands are made out of different kinds of woods and cores that hold different qualities. This combination of wood and core (for example:…
Roman Paganism
Roman Paganism is endlessly fascinating. Tutelary deities were the gods thought to look after certain cities in Italy. On a smaller scale, each household may have a tutelary deity that they feel connected to and worship. A remnant of this still exists today in Italy with Catholicism: many families feel drawn to one particular saint…
Saturn: the Magician
Astrologically speaking, the planet Saturn tends to scare people. The planet gets a bad reputation because it is the planet of responsibility, time, and karma – not to mention the things that we’re not very good at. The sign of Saturn within our natal chart depicts and energy that doesn’t come naturally to us. But…
The North Node and South Node
The North Node and the South Node. The Dragon’s Head and the Dragon’s Tail. Rahu and Ketu. These are the nodes of destiny in astrology. The South Node represents our past lifetimes. The sign on the South Node indicates an energy in which we are comfortable with. The astrological house within our natal chart that…
Lucid Dreaming + LOA
Our dreams are really great tools to use to gauge whether or not we are in alignment with our desires. Usually our dreams reflect our dominant thoughts throughout the day or information that we picked up on from our environment. Our subconscious mind is in control when we are sleeping and in this theta brain…
Weaponizing Astrology
Astrology has been used as a weapon by powerful people since ancient times. So powerful, in fact, that many Roman emperors throughout history have banned astrology at different periods in order to keep the knowledge out of common people’s – and their enemies’ – hands. An astrologer predicted Augusts’ rise to power. Domitian was an…
How do we call the name of the wind?
In The Name of the Wind series by Patrick Rothfuss, knowing the true names of things is very powerful, but you cannot learn the name of the wind through your waking mind. So in real life terms, how can we know the name of the wind? How can we know things that we don’t have…
How can we hold the Alar like in The Name of the Wind?
In The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, sympathists are able to hold the Alar. The Alar is basically a very strong belief that effects material reality. Willem describes the Alar as “believing in something so strongly that it becomes so – and when you stop believing, it stops being so.” So how can…
Could we actually apparate?
Apparation in the Harry Potter universe is basically teleportation. In the Bell test experiment, scientists entangled, or bonded, two photons together and shot them into a room in two different directions. When they forced one photon to disappear, the other one disappeared at the exact same time. This test proved that there is a unified…
Quantum Jumping
Electrons exist around a subatomic particle. At the atomic level, a quantum jump is when an electron jumps to a different energy level. Since everything in our universe is made up of atoms, this means this rule can be applied to everything in our world. Atoms don’t behave in predictable ways. Wherever an observer directs…
Patronus = High Vibration
In order to cast a patronus charm, a witch or wizard needs to focus upon a single happy memory and feel as happy as possible while recalling it. The mechanism of this would be one using their frontal lobe to produce and focus upon a single positive thought. This thought produces an emotion, and emotions…
Why the Law of Attraction is Quantum Law
The Law of Attraction is a law of the universe, as real as the laws of quantum physics. Allow me to introduce a few basic principles of quantum physics: Subatomic particles exist everywhere simultaneously as energy until an observer collapses the energy into particles. An observer could be human, but simply put it is anything…
Can we mere muggles cast spells?
If you’re like me, you never quite recovered from the trauma of turning eleven years old and realizing that your Hogwarts letter was never going to come. But if you’re really really like me, you also didn’t let that stop you from living in ~delusion~ and pretending that you’re magical anyways. But reading Dr. Joe…
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